§ 26. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Dome Secretary if he will state, for the year 1921, how much, respectively, of morphia. heroin and codeine was made 1118 by the two factories in Edinburgh; how much of each of these drugs was exported by British firms; where they were sent; end how were they despatched, whether shipped or sent by parcel post?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSAs the answer contains a number of figures and is rather long, I will, with the. hon. and gallant Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYYes, if my right hon. Friend will inform. me that the information indicates that these drugs are only sent out for proper purposes.
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI have given the hon. and gallant Member a very full answer, and if he is not satisfied, perhaps he will put a further question on the Paper.
§ Following is the reply:.
§ The statistics for 1924 are not yet completed, but I can give provisional figures. The two manufacturing firms made 99, 400 ozs. of morphine, 16, 700 ozs. of heroin and 153, 300 ozs. of codeine. 88, 870 ozs. of morphine were exported, but this figure include the morphine contained in preparations made direct from raw opium. 10, 704 ozs. of heroin were exported. Statistics of the exports of codeine, which is not a dangerous drug, are not available. The destinations of the exports were approximately as follows: Europe received 60, 000 ozs. of morphine and 7, 600 ozs. of heroin; Asia, 12, 500 ozs. of morphine and 600 ozs. of heroin; Africa, 1, 400 ozs. of morphine and 140 ozs. of heroin; North and South America, 9, 000 ozs. of morphine and 700 ozs. of heroin; Australasia, 5, 700 ozs. of morphine and 1, 600 ozs. of heroin. The statistics do not distinguish between consignments sent by parcel post and others.